Sleep Deprived Mama 😩 😴

Hi! Have you thought about weaning your son from the night nursing? My pediatrician has told me in the past that my son doesn't need to night nurse for nutrition and that he may have been waking up out of habit just to nurse. When I stopped night nursing he started sleeping better.

Yes! I have tried, but I honestly don’t know how. He just starts crying if I don’t and I don’t want to wake up the rest of the family. Any ideas on this would be helpful as well 🥴

My son doesn’t nurse so i’m not sure if this will make a difference if he’s searching for comfort, but my son sleeps 7-8 hours through if i give him yogurt like an hour before bed

@Jenny would it be possible for someone else to get up with him when he wakes up? My husband started taking some of the night wakings and it helped separate nursing from waking up at night.

You’re not alone! My 18mo is still waking several times to nurse for comfort. Idk how to go about night weaning either because I still want to nurse during the day. I guess I don’t have advice but sometimes it’s nice to know that others are in the same boat!

Night weaning will probably help! We night weaned my daughter a couple months ago, and it was hard, but she adjusted in just a couple of days. We offered water if she woke up - which sometimes she drank, and sometimes made her angrier. But we'd rock her and provide other comfort until she calmed down. I understand not wanting to wake everyone else, but if you're consistent, I don't imagine it would impact them for more than a few days or maybe a week or so at most. And it didn't really impact my milk supy during the day if that's a concern for you!

My son was like this too, it was horrible. I was super against sleep training until I literally had enough, I wasn’t able to enjoy him because of how tired we all were as a family. I would never recommend sleep training, but it does work. The first night I wouldn’t take him out of the crib I would just lay there on the ground with him. He fell asleep after 20-30 minutes. I’m not going to say it was easy, but he seemed to get it really quickly. After that when he would wake up I would go in and rub his back and he would eventually fall asleep. Two days later, sleeping through the night. That was about 5 months ago- looking back at it, we BOTH needed it. He needed to learn how to put himself back to sleep. I don’t believe in the extreme sleep trainings where you don’t attend to their needs and you let them cry for hours. But luckily for me and my baby, he adapted really well to it. Just a thought

I agree with everyone above to first wean night feedings. Just hold him and rock him maybe instead? If that doesn’t work or if he’s freaking out, just maybe put him back in the crib and rub his back and sing to him? Again, it’s not going to be easy but I think it will be worth it.

Think about it… we all wake up 10-15 times throughout the night but as adults we learn to just fall back to sleep in seconds. It sounds like your baby wakes up and doesn’t know how to go back to sleep without you.

What tires him out? Is he physically active between dinner and when you start to get him down for sleep?

We part time bedshare

Typically I move him to the mini crib once he's out out more .... And then with that I slowly pour him into the mini crib, and offer light pressure on his little body for 15 seconds.... Then very slowly step away

You can message me if you want help transitioning him to a mini crib or crib

@Jenny im on the same exact boat as you!! 😴🥱😮‍💨

I do suggest trying the yogurt trick before bed seems to help a lot and ALSO 100% tart cherry juice is a natural melatonin and has worked for my son during his teething stage when he’d wake up a lot!

Im having the same issue i dont remember the last time i slept more then 3 hrs a night 😭 i do still wake up to nurse my daughter as well